WorkShyft
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WorkShyft empowers leaders with empathy, accountability, and a growth mindset to transform outdated practices and inspire thriving workplace cultures. Follow us on LinkedIn and join us in redefining leadership for lasting impact.
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Culture Shock Therapy: When Your Workplace Feels Like Conversion Therapy
There’s something profoundly unsettling about stepping into a new workplace. It’s not just a new job—it’s a whole new world with its own language, rituals, and unspoken rules. The office is a polished performance, where every poster screams teamwork and every meeting feels like a scripted production. You’re not just joining a team; you’re being inducted into a system that wants to rewire how you think, act, and even talk.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
The Realist’s Guide to Growth: Why Self-Awareness Is Your Ultimate Tool
A Practical Path to Progress Let’s cut through the fluff: a growth mindset is one of the most effective tools for personal and professional progress. It’s not about blind positivity or glossing over challenges—it’s about recognizing that improvement is always possible if you’re willing to put in the effort and learn from your experiences.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
Your Employees Should Challenge You
The Leadership Lie No One Wants to Admit Here’s a hard truth no one wants to say out loud: most leaders don’t want to be challenged. They say they do—“My door’s always open!”—but what they really mean is, “Come in, agree with me, and leave.” But great leadership isn’t about collecting a team of yes-men and patting yourself on the back for how “collaborative” you are.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
The Layoff Buffet: Why CFOs and CEOs Deserve the Bill
Welcome to the Corporate Hunger Games Layoffs. A word that makes employees clutch their coffee mugs like lifelines and sends shockwaves through Slack channels everywhere. One day you’re “family,” the next day you’re escorted out with a sad box of desk plants and outdated office supplies.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
The Death of the 9-to-5: Why Your Body Clock Hates the Clock
Let’s start with a confession: I’ve never been a morning person. The crack of dawn? It’s an insult to coffee and good intentions. And yet, for most of us, the 9-to-5 workday is non-negotiable. It’s a rigid box designed to cram all of humanity into one miserable, soul-crushing mold.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
The Problem with Personality Tests in the Workplace
Let me set the scene. It’s a team-building retreat—the kind with stale coffee, trust falls, and PowerPoints no one asked for. Someone pulls out a stack of personality tests, promising to unlock your team’s “hidden potential.” You sit there, begrudgingly ticking boxes, while a facilitator insists the results will “revolutionize how you work together.”
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
Leadership Isn’t a Spectator Sport: The Dangerous Allure of Deliberate Indifference
Leadership. It’s a word that gets tossed around like confetti in corporate America. We talk about it endlessly—seminars, books, webinars—yet we rarely address the elephant in the room: the leaders who are physically present but emotionally AWOL.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
Playing Dumb: How Performative Ignorance Among Leaders is Killing Workplace Trust
The Act of Playing Dumb We’ve all been there. You’re in a meeting, laying out the cold, hard truth about a workplace issue that’s been festering for months. Suddenly, your boss furrows their brow, sighs deeply, and says, “Wow, I had no idea this was happening.” Cue the awkward silence, side-eyes, and suppressed eye rolls.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
Empathy Burnout: When Caring Becomes a Slow Burn to the Ground
Let’s start with a truth bomb: empathy is a beautiful thing, but it’s also a double-edged sword. In a world that’s spinning faster than a barista on a triple espresso, being the person who cares—really, deeply cares—can feel less like a noble calling and more like a slow-motion self-destruction.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
Leadership Isn’t Babysitting: Why Insecurity Is Killing Your Team
Leadership. The word alone gets tossed around boardrooms and LinkedIn feeds like some kind of holy grail. But let’s be real—most people leading teams aren’t exactly inspiring the kind of loyalty you'd see in a Tarantino protagonist. They’re more like substitute teachers who showed up without a lesson plan: overworked, underprepared, and secretly hoping no one sets the room on fire.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
The Underground Workplace Culture
There’s a side to every workplace that you don’t see on the company website. It’s the part that doesn’t make it into the mission statement or the team-building exercises. It’s the hidden, unspoken culture that exists in the break rooms, the side chats, the hushed conversations behind closed doors. It’s the underground workplace culture, and it thrives in places where open communication is a myth. Where people are too afraid, too guarded, or too jaded to say what they really think.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
The Hypocrisy of Employee Relations: Why Your Open-Door Policy is a Revolving Door
Welcome to the Corporate Jungle: Hope You Packed a Parachute Corporate America loves its buzzwords. Employee engagement. Open-door policies. “We’re a family here.” These phrases get tossed around like confetti at a parade nobody asked for. But let’s be honest—if corporations are families, they’re the kind you avoid on holidays. You know, the ones that serve guilt with a side of passive aggression.
By WorkShyftabout a year ago in Motivation
